The countdown is on for the annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo in Europe! This year the conference will be taking place in the great city of Amsterdam September 21-23rd. This three day conference will focus on the latest trends, news and best practices in the MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud markets, while […]

MySQL replication is a process that allows you to easily maintain multiple copies of MySQL data by having them copied automatically from a master to a slave database. It’s essential to make sure the slave servers have the same set of data as the master to ensure data is consistent within the replication stream. MySQL […]

My server is crashing… Now what? This special episode in the MySQL QA Series is for customers or users experiencing a crash. A crash? Cheat sheet: https://goo.gl/rrmB9i Sever install & crash. Note this is as a demonstration: do not action this on a production server! sudo yum install -y http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/redhat/0.1-3/percona-release-0.1-3.noarch.rpm sudo yum install -y Percona-Server-client-56 Percona-Server-server-56 sudo service […]

During the last couple of months I have been involved in an unusually high amount of performance audits for e-commerce applications running with Magento. And although the systems were quite different, they also had one thing in common: the MySQL query cache was very useful. That was counter-intuitive for me as I’ve always expected the […]

IST Basics State transfers in Galera remain a mystery to most people. Incremental State transfers (as opposed to full State Snapshot transfers) are used under the following conditions: The Joiner node reports Galera a valid Galera GTID to the cluster The Donor node selected contains all the transactions the Joiner needs to catch up to […]

Today’s episode is all about Valgrind – from the pro’s to the con’s, from the why to the how! This episode will be of interest to anyone who is or wants to work with Valgrind on a regular or semi-regular basis. Pro’s/Why Con’s How Using the latest version sudo [yum/apt-get] install valgrind #OR# sudo [yum/apt-get] remove […]

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.12 on August 3, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered […]

In my recent benchmarks for MongoDB, we can see that the two engines WiredTiger and TokuMX struggle from periodical drops in throughput, which is clearly related to a checkpoint interval – and therefore I correspond it to a checkpoint activity. The funny thing is that I thought we solved checkpointing issues in InnoDB once and […]